Anxiety Dreams

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#51
VolsSportsFan said:
I have had dreams of games the night before a game, both football and basketball. Some I'm at the stadium and can't get to my seat; others I can't get to a TV to watch.

The funniest ones I've had there's been a UT football game and UT basketball game going on at the same time but they would play like a half then the other game would play a half. Plus the opponents made no sense; like one of them we played Florida in football and Kentucky in basketball at the same time.
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We lose both!?
 
#53
#53
joevol33 said:
I've been asleep, but like awake in my head. I can tell my wife what's been going on, but just can't wake up physically. Its hard to explain, but that freaks me out. Maybe I'm just crazy!
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Similar things have happened to me. It only happens rarely when I take a nap on the couch. Never in bed.

I think it's happened when I'm dreaming, and I realize I'm dreaming. I wake up in my head at least. I know I fell asleep on the couch, but it's like my body is still asleep. I'm trying to move my arms, sit up, open my eyes, but I have no control. Doesn't last long. 10-15 seconds at the most and then I can move around like normal.

Freaks me out too.
 
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TheDeeble said:
Similar things have happened to me. It only happens rarely when I take a nap on the couch. Never in bed.

I think it's happened when I'm dreaming, and I realize I'm dreaming. I wake up in my head at least. I know I fell asleep on the couch, but it's like my body is still asleep. I'm trying to move my arms, sit up, open my eyes, but I have no control. Doesn't last long. 10-15 seconds at the most and then I can move around like normal.

Freaks me out too.
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This appears to be more common than I thought. I told my soon to be wife and she acted like I was crazy. I try avoid searching things on webmd because who knows what kind of conditions they'll be predicting. After about three pages it will go from bad to worse :)
 
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#56
For those who have experienced sleep paralysis, do you suffer from sleep apnea? I don't know of any link, but I'm pretty sure I suffer from it and I'm having the sleep study next week. The reason I ask is during my paralysis episodes, I usually have trouble breathing and a classic symptom people report is a feeling like somone is sitting on your chest.
 
#57
#57
At times I've gotten pretty good at lucid dreaming where I know I'm dreaming and start controlling what's going on.

As far as anxiety dreams, I definitely get some variation of the class dream from time to time. When I was a kid I had sleep paralysis a decent amount. Luckily hasn't happened in years though.

I've had dreams where I died. That's always pretty creepy. I'll die in some random way then be kind of floating there in darkness for a bit wondering what's going to happen next. Then I wake up.

Last one... My wife very frequently had dreams that she is a completely different person. It's always in a different time period too. One that she had multiple times is that she a black man during slavery times.
 
#58
#58
The worst one is a recurring nightmare of the last horrific call that I worked before quitting EMS. 12 years later and I still have it at least once a month.
 
#59
#59
Teeth falling out or falling to pieces in my mouth usually. Really freaky when experiencing it.
 
#60
#60
I have a dream often that I have skipped the entire semester of a math class and when I finally go, it's time for the final.
I occasionally have one like the scene in Poltergeist where the guy peels his face off in the bathroom mirror.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
For those who have experienced sleep paralysis, do you suffer from sleep apnea? I don't know of any link, but I'm pretty sure I suffer from it and I'm having the sleep study next week. The reason I ask is during my paralysis episodes, I usually have trouble breathing and a classic symptom people report is a feeling like somone is sitting on your chest.
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I've always just thought it was cause I was freaking out. My heart will be racing when I finally wake up.
 
#63
#63
I have this dream where my car slides off the road and off a cliff and im just stuck in that moment of being airborn with no control.
 
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#64
I constantly have brake problems in my dreams. I'll push the brake pedal to the floor and my car will just keep sliding.
 
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#65
TDTennessee said:
I work in a restaurant, so I have restaurant related dreams all the time. Last night I had one where I was late to work and had none of the prep finished when it was time to open. Woke up and it was 430, so I just went in to work so I wouldn't over sleep.
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I used to work in a resturant. My wife, then gf said I woke her up once in the middle of the night asking what she wanted on her baked potato while I was asleep.

I had dreams all the time when I cooked that I had hundreds of orders and no help to prepare them. These usually happened on Friday nights (when I'd work until late Friday night and then have to come back in early Saturday morning).

While in training at my current job I used to dream a lot as well. Don't have work dreams anymore that I'm not training though.
 
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#66
#66
I put on deodorant and perfume before bed so if I wake up at night soaked in sweat from an anxiety dream I still smell great!
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
I constantly have brake problems in my dreams. I'll push the brake pedal to the floor and my car will just keep sliding.
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I do too!!

I approach a stoplight and I just madly overshoot it. As a safe and handsome driver, it is distressing.
 
#71
#71
I have situations that I have played out in my head come true a lot. I guess it has to be in my dreams. I'll be in a meeting at work and know what's getting ready to be said.

All I can figure is I've dreamed it or the same situations have repeated themselves perfectly.
 
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#73
I've had a lucid dream a few times. The most recent time was a couple of weeks ago where I was delivering a stand up comedy routine and just improvising the whole thing. I tried to remember some of the jokes for when I woke up. Upon waking up, I jogged my memory for the jokes, but they were quite unfunny and boring in real life. I thought they were hilarious while dreaming, though. In fact, the way I woke up is by giggling so much at my mundane jokes that the noise shook me out of it.
 
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#74
Also, I've had a dream where my highschool football coach comes up and tells me that (even though I'm nearly 30) I can play in tonight's game if I go get my pads on in the locker room. I go to the locker room and suit up, but on the way out to the field, I misplace my helmet. I spend the whole game looking for my helmet. Never find it.
 
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